If you run a cleaning, security, or facilities company and you're choosing between Connecteam, Swept, and StockPoint, the short answer is this: Connecteam is the strongest general-purpose workforce app, especially if you have 10 or fewer employees (its Small Business plan is free at that size) or you need deep training, HR, and communication tools. Swept is built specifically for janitorial operations — cleaning instructions, inspections, and multi-language support — and makes sense for cleaning-only companies that handle billing elsewhere. StockPoint is built for commercial field-service companies that want operations and money in one system: identity-verified time tracking that flows directly into client invoices, payroll exports, per-contract profit reporting, wage-notice compliance, and client portals.
Pricing models differ more than feature lists do. Connecteam prices per "hub" (Operations, Communications, HR) with each hub carrying its own subscription, Swept prices by the number of locations you manage, and those structures change the math dramatically depending on your headcount and building count — we work through a real example below.
Disclosure: StockPoint publishes this blog. We've kept every claim about Connecteam and Swept tied to their own published pricing and documentation or to independent review data, and we say plainly where each competitor is the better choice — because for some companies, they are.
How we compared them
This comparison is based on each vendor's own published pricing and plan pages as of August 2026 — Connecteam's pricing page and Swept's plan pricing page — plus independent review data from Capterra and third-party reviews. Software pricing changes frequently, so treat the numbers here as a snapshot and confirm current figures on the vendors' sites before buying.
One framing note: these three products overlap but aren't aimed at the same buyer. Connecteam is horizontal workforce management for any deskless team — restaurants, retail, construction, healthcare. Swept is vertical software for janitorial companies. StockPoint is vertical software for commercial field-service companies — cleaning, security, construction crews, and facilities maintenance — with an emphasis on turning verified field time into accurate invoices and payroll. The right choice depends mostly on which of those descriptions matches your business.
What does Connecteam do well, and where does it stop?
Connecteam is the most mature product of the three as a pure workforce app. It offers GPS time tracking with geofencing, drag-and-drop scheduling, forms and checklists, task management, an employee chat and updates feed, and a full training and HR layer — courses, quizzes, document management, and recognition tools. Independent reviewers consistently praise its scheduling depth and its security posture (ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications), and its free Small Business plan covers up to 10 users with access to the full feature set — a legitimately good deal that neither Swept nor StockPoint matches at that size.
Where it stops matters for field-service operators. A detailed 2026 review by Clockify's team scored Connecteam 3.9/5 overall and flagged a set of limitations that come up repeatedly across review sites: a hub-based pricing structure the reviewer called "confusing and steep," no offline mode (unsaved changes are lost without a connection), a relatively short integration list, and an interface where options are scattered across the three hubs. More fundamental for this audience: Connecteam has no client-facing portal, no invoicing, and no inventory or supply management. It tracks your people well, but everything between the timesheet and the money — client billing, per-contract profitability, supply reorders — happens in other software.
Connecteam is the right call when your main problems are scheduling, communication, and training across a large hourly workforce, and you already have billing and client management handled elsewhere — or when you're small enough to ride the free plan.
How does Connecteam pricing actually work?
Connecteam sells three separate hubs — Operations, Communications, and HR & Skills — and each hub is its own subscription with its own Basic, Advanced, and Expert tiers. Per its published pricing, paid tiers start at $29 per month billed annually ($35 billed monthly) for the first 30 users, rising to $99–$119 per month for Expert tiers, with each user beyond 30 adding a per-user monthly charge that varies by hub and tier (roughly $0.50 to $5 per additional user).
The catch is the word "hub." The advertised price covers one hub. If you want time tracking and scheduling (Operations) plus company chat and updates (Communications), that's two subscriptions. Teams under 10 users avoid all of this on the free plan, and Connecteam's transparency about per-user overage rates is genuinely better than most competitors — but multi-hub, 50-plus-user deployments end up costing several times the advertised entry price, which is the number to model before you commit.
What does Swept do well, and where does it stop?
Swept was designed by people who ran a cleaning company, and it shows in the details: location-specific cleaning instructions, janitorial inspection workflows with photos and ratings, no-show alerts, mandatory-break compliance, and in-app translation across 100+ languages — a real advantage for multilingual crews. Its Capterra profile holds a 4.3/5 rating across 79 reviews, with users praising the real-time visibility into who's on site and how long they worked. If your company is janitorial and only janitorial, Swept's workflows will fit the way your supervisors already think.
The limitations that surface in reviews are of two kinds. First, product scope: Swept has no billing or invoicing capability — reviewers on Capterra note this directly — so verified hours still have to be re-keyed or exported into an invoicing tool. Client portal, supply management, and profitability reporting exist but are reserved for the top-tier Scale plan. Second, execution: recurring review complaints mention mobile app crashes and freezing, admin setup that takes "a lot of back and forth," and photo caps on inspection reports.
Swept is the right call for a cleaning-only company whose priorities are field instructions, inspections, and crew communication in many languages, and which is comfortable running billing separately.
How does Swept pricing work?
Swept prices by locations managed, not by employees. Its published plans start at $30 per month for Launch (time tracking, scheduling, cleaning instructions, payroll reporting), $150 per month for Optimize (adds geofenced timekeeping, inspections, break compliance, location-based messaging), and $225 per month for Scale (adds the client portal, supply management, work orders, and profitability reporting), with the entry band covering up to 15 locations and annual billing saving 20%.
Location-based pricing is kind to companies with big crews in few buildings — 40 cleaners across 8 offices costs the same as 10 cleaners across 8 offices. It's less kind to companies with many small accounts: once you pass each location band, the price steps up regardless of headcount. Note also that geofenced clock-in — table stakes for verified time — requires the Optimize tier, so the realistic starting price for time-theft control is $150 per month, not $30.
Where does StockPoint fit?
StockPoint's premise is that for a commercial field-service company, the timesheet and the invoice are the same fact viewed twice — so the system that verifies the punch should be the system that bills the client and feeds payroll. The time clock verifies identity at the punch: a tablet kiosk with a 6-digit PIN plus a selfie face check, GPS geofencing, and QR or passkey punching, so the hours that reach an invoice are hours a specific person verifiably worked at that site. From there, invoices are generated from those verified punches — flat-rate, per-worker, or cost-plus, per building if needed, with net terms and escalating payment reminders — and payroll exports go to Gusto, ADP, QuickBooks, or Paychex. We covered the mechanics of punch-to-invoice billing in our guide to billing hourly clients straight from the time clock.
Around that core sit the operational pieces this audience tends to buy separately: client portals with project sign-off and QR guard-tour checkpoints, per-site inventory with low-stock alerts and supplier reorders, per-contract monthly profit-and-loss, a walkthrough estimator, embeddable online booking, and bilingual English/Spanish wage-notice compliance with PIN e-signatures and tamper-evident storage — the last one aimed squarely at New York's Labor Law 195 requirements, which matter to any tri-state employer of hourly field labor. Workers sign in through a My Pay portal with a worker code and PIN, no email address required — a practical detail for field crews where not everyone has, or wants to use, a personal email.
Where StockPoint is not the right fit: it doesn't attempt Connecteam's training, courses, and HR-engagement layer, and a residential or route-based home-services company will find products like Jobber closer to its workflows. StockPoint is built for the commercial contract model — recurring service at client sites, hourly crews, invoices priced from labor — strongest for cleaning, security, construction, and facilities companies in the 5-to-150-worker range, and deepest on compliance in New York and the tri-state area.
Worked example: 50 field workers across 20 buildings
Consider a hypothetical commercial cleaning company — call it a 50-employee operation servicing 20 buildings — that wants verified GPS time tracking, scheduling, crew messaging, and some way to get hours into invoices. This example is illustrative, using each vendor's published August 2026 rates; your quote will vary.
On Connecteam, the Operations hub Advanced tier at annual billing runs $49 per month for the first 30 users plus roughly $2.50 for each user beyond that — about $99 per month for 50 users. Add the Communications hub for chat and updates and the total roughly climbs toward $150–$180 per month depending on tier. Invoicing still isn't included at any price; hours export to spreadsheets or third-party accounting tools.
On Swept, 20 buildings exceeds the entry band, and geofenced punching plus inspections lives in the Optimize tier — so expect a quote starting above $150 per month, or above $225 per month with Scale if the client portal and supply management matter. Billing still happens in other software.
On StockPoint, the equivalent deployment includes verified punching, scheduling, portals, inventory, and the invoicing engine in one subscription — pricing is published at getstockpoint.com. The structural difference isn't the monthly fee; it's that the re-keying step between timesheets and invoices disappears, which is where billing errors and revenue leakage tend to live.
The honest summary of the math: at 10 or fewer employees, Connecteam free is unbeatable. In the mid-market commercial range, the three land in a similar monthly band — the deciding factor is which features you'd otherwise buy a second product for.
Which should you choose?
Choose Connecteam if you have 10 or fewer workers (free), if training and HR engagement are your biggest gaps, or if your business spans industries beyond field service. It's the broadest and most polished workforce app of the three, and its weaknesses — no invoicing, no client portal, no inventory — only matter if you needed those things.
Choose Swept if you run a cleaning-only company, your supervisors live in inspections and location instructions, and your crews speak many languages. Budget for the Optimize tier as your realistic floor, and keep your existing billing tool.
Choose StockPoint if you bill commercial clients for hourly labor and you're tired of the gap between the time clock and the invoice — or if you employ hourly workers in New York and wage-notice compliance is on your mind. See how the verified time clock feeds invoices, payroll, and per-contract P&L, or start a free account at getstockpoint.com/signup and price your own crew.
Is Connecteam's free plan enough for a small cleaning company?
Often, yes — up to 10 users, the Small Business plan includes time tracking, scheduling, and communication at no cost, which is why it's a common first system for new cleaning and security companies. The constraints arrive with growth: at user 11 you move to paid hubs, and at any size you'll need separate tools for client invoicing, portals, and supplies. If your five-person company invoices a handful of buildings monthly from QuickBooks anyway, Connecteam free is a rational choice.
Does Swept or Connecteam handle client invoicing?
No. Neither Connecteam nor Swept generates client invoices — both track time and export it, leaving billing to accounting software, and Capterra reviewers list the absence of billing among Swept's limitations. Swept's Scale plan includes profitability reporting and a client portal, but invoice creation still happens elsewhere. StockPoint is the only product of the three that prices invoices directly from verified time-clock punches, including per-building invoices and cost-plus arrangements.
Do any of these replace payroll software?
No — none of the three runs payroll itself, and you shouldn't want them to. All three export timesheet data to payroll providers; StockPoint ships formatted exports for Gusto, ADP, QuickBooks, and Paychex specifically. We compared those payroll providers for field-service companies in a separate guide. The practical question is how much cleanup the timesheet needs before export — which is where punch verification (face check, geofence, PIN) earns its keep.
Sources and a note on fairness
Pricing and plan details in this article come from Connecteam's published pricing and Swept's plan pricing page, both checked August 2026. Review evidence comes from Swept's Capterra profile (4.3/5, 79 reviews) and Clockify's 2026 Connecteam review (3.9/5). Vendors change pricing without notice; confirm current figures before purchasing. StockPoint publishes this blog, and we've flagged every point where a competitor is the stronger choice — if we've gotten a fact about either product wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.